re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%Posted by cwill on 12/12/12 at 4:49 pm to Powerman

quote:All you do is talk about anecdotal bull shite based on your hero stories with other allegedly lesser informed people and shite you heard on Rush.

Yep...that's all he does...should you engage him in an argument all he does is latch on to some irrelevant turn of phrase and ask obvious gotcha questions that a high-school debate team kid would try....He's really just an older version of mograyback (or whatever his name is).

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%Posted by cwill on 12/12/12 at 4:53 pm to lsu13lsu

quote:Someone doesn't know what Libertarian means. Either Reason or the youngsters.

Reason is a longstanding libertarian mag funded by the Koch Bros....I don't think they have a problem with what libertarianism means...perhaps self-proclaimed libertarians here have trouble understanding that libertarianism is multi-layered and when voting for a lesser-evil some may choose the promise of social-liberalism by the Dems (though false and dumb expectation) over the lack of it found in the Rep party....knowing full-well that neither really are fiscally conservative.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%Posted by Zach on 12/12/12 at 4:54 pm to Powerman

quote:Also your comment seems to suggest that young people are all stupid which is clearly not the case

The OP was talking about younger people than you. I have no doubt that you understand Lib. But I have encountered teenagers who claim to be Libertarian - Marxists. They are too young to understand how stupid that is.

quote:LOL all of your personal stories that have nothing to do with anything

Then don't read my posts. I don't click on 80 mussent of the threads on this board. You are free to choose.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%Posted by Zach on 12/12/12 at 4:57 pm to schlow mo

quote: There is no such thing as a 'young' Libertarian. It takes thought, debate, and study to become Libertarian. That's why there are no teenagers or women at the Libertarian Convention. That is one of the dumber statements I have ever seen.

Ah, so you have never watched any of the Libertarian Conventions on CSPAN? Really? Then you are speaking from a position of ignorance. There are no teenagers and there are no women. It is what it is. Not my fault.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%Posted by schlow mo on 12/12/12 at 5:00 pm to Zach

So your assumption is because you have anectdotal evidence from a Libertarian Convention that since there were no women or teenagers there is no such thing as a young liberarian or a woman libertarian for that matter.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%Posted by Zach on 12/12/12 at 5:05 pm to schlow mo

quote:So your assumption is because you have anectdotal evidence from a Libertarian Convention that since there were no women or teenagers there is no such thing as a young liberarian or a woman libertarian for that matter.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%Posted by buddhavista on 12/12/12 at 5:40 pm to Zach

quote:But I have encountered teenagers who claim to be Libertarian - Marxists. They are too young to understand how stupid that is.

They actually call themselves libertarian socialists, not marxists.

And they took it from noam chomsky. Who took the charge on it from a movement in the 1800s, with roots in the anarchy movement.

Its the concept of social anarchy, which is quite different than the capitalist anarchy that you probably advocate. Basically there is no leader, all decisions are communal, no property, but also no rules. I think its unworkable, but its the current banner for the anarchists who protest at WTO and the like.